mũnyongoro

Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records minyongora as an equivalent of English worm in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mòɲɔ́ᵑɡɔ̀ɾɔ́ꜜ/
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 8 with a trisyllabic stem, together with ngũngũni, batĩrĩ, and so on.

Noun

mũnyongoro class 3 (plural mĩnyongoro)

  1. centipede[4][5][6]
  2. millipede[7][8]
  3. earthworm[7][9]

References

  1. Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 6667. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1981). "A Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns: A Study of Limuru Dialect." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 22, 75123.
  3. Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1985). "A Second Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 29, 190231.
  4. Alam, S.M. Shamsul (2007). Rethinking the Mau Mau in Colonial Kenya, p. 232. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  5. Koigi wa Wamwere (2002). I Refuse to Die: My Journey For Freedom, p. 348. Seven Stories Press.
  6. Muriuki, Godfrey (2012). "Cege wa Kibiru." In Emmanuel K. Akyeampong and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (eds.) Dictionary of African Biography, volume 2, pp. 4950. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-538207-5
  7. nyongoro” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 350. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  8. Maina wa Mutonya (2007). "Joseph Kamaru: Contending Narrations of Kenya's Politics Through Music", p. 38. In Kimani Njogu and G. Oluoch-Olunya (eds.) Cultural Production and Social Change in Kenya: Building Bridges, pp. 2745. Nairobi: Twaweza Communications. ISBN 9966 9743 7 7
  9. Muiru, David N. (2007). Wĩrute Gĩgĩkũyũ: Marĩtwa Ma Gĩgĩkũyũ Mataũrĩtwo Na Gĩthũngũ.
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